During science we talked about how the air is all around us and how we can sometimes feel it and hear it moving. We read The Wind Blew a story about the wind blowing lots of different items into the air. We tried to move different items by blowing down straws to move the air. Some of the items moved easily others were much
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Here are some examples of the work we have done as part of our Aistear topic on Africa.
After our walk on Thursday our buddies came back to class with us. We drew a picture of them and they drew a picture of us.
We have all settled in really well. Although we’ve only been in school for seven days we’ve been really busy – playing, working, settling into a routine, making friends and exercising to Gonoodle. We’ve had our first Gaelic coaching session, been to our first assembly and our first school mass, done a tour of the school, played in the soft play area and visited the school
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The pupils and staff in The Glen have spent the last couple of weeks creating a special Christmas Tree. The tree is made from plastic cups which are glued to circles of corrugated plastic. All of the cups were first covered in different shades of green, using tissue paper and crepe paper. We cut out different sizes of circles of corrugated plastic and glued
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We looked carefully at some pictures of emperor penguins – the shapes and colours. We chose whether to paint an adult or a chick.
Inuit art We looked at some examples of Inuit Art then tried our own versions. Polar Bears under the Northern Lights First of all we used a purple and then a blue wash. After that we stuck cling film on the blue to create an icy look. We used sparkly paint for the Northern Lights. Last of all we cut out a polar
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Second Class have made a great start to the year. In Gaeilge we’ve been asking and answering questions based on Mé Féin, in art we used a ruler to make starburst pictures and did Graffiti style names, we’ve played maths games, looked at family trees, started our new religion books, worked on our running style in P.E. and enjoyed Golden Time. This week we
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“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by 4th class. In fourth class we build up a picture of Narnia as we read the novel “The lion the witch and the wardrobe”. We made pictures of Mr Tumnus’s house, Mr and Mrs Beavers house, the white witch, the dwarf and the Pevence children. We described characters in detail as we met them in
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The children in Third class carried out project work based on Christopher Columbus. They worked in pairs or in groups. They were very creative and worked hard on their Art projects. The children used a variety of materials such as wood, clay, lego and card. They then presented their projects to the class. I was very impressed with the effort they put into
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